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UNITED STATES Patented June 16, 1903.

PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE O. BAKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC-MOTOR SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,860, dated June 16, 1903.

Application filed May 10, 1901.. berial No. 59,601. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Electric-HotorSystems, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electric-motor systems, and has for its object the provision of means whereby an electric motor used for driving machinery may be converted immediately into a braking-generator by the operation of a circuit-breaking device controlling the power-circuit.

In many classes of machinessuch, for instance, as printing-presses-it is desirable to be able to stop the machine very quickly to prevent injury to the mechanism or the work. NVhen the machine is driven by an electric motor, it is well known that the supply of current to the motor may be quickly out OK by including an electromagnetic circuit-breaker in series with the motor and providing a control-circuit, with push-buttons located at convenient points, so that an attendant'by pressing one of said buttons can cause the circuitbreaker to operate. It has also been proposed to so construct a motor-controller that when necessaryit will automatically shut off the power by coming to off position and will then short-circuit the motor through a resistance, so that the motor will act as a gen.- erator, driven by its own momentum and that of the machine to which it is connected, and thus serve as a brake to stop the machine. My invention aims to combine both these ideas' by so constructing the circuit-breaker that when it operates it will automatically close the circuit of the motor through a local circuit, thereby causing the motor to act as a braking-generator immediately without waiting for the controller to be returned to its oit position or for the operation of any intermediate mechanism.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of an automatic circuitbreaker, partly broken away to show my improvements. Fig. 2 is a diagram of the circuits. Fig. 3 is a front elevation, and Fig. at is a side elevation, of the complete circuitbreaker.

The circuit-breaker may be of a well-known commercial type. The particular type shown in the drawings is the standard General Electric MQ circuit-breaker, which is well-known in the market. stationary but spring-[non n ted contact-plates A A, with which are connected the branch conductors l 1, carrying current from the main lead 2 to one brush Z) of thearmature B of a sh unt-motor. Tho movable contact O of the circuit-breaker is held locked in a position to bridge the plates A A by a catch K, which is controlled by the overload electromagnet-coil F, whose armature is shown at In this type there are two D, and an underload or no-voltage coil E,

with armature L, added to the standard commercial circuit-breaker. A coiled spring 0 throws the movable contact 0 away from the plate A', and thus breaks the motor-supply circuit instantaneously whenever the catch K is tripped. This may be caused by the attraction of armature D to coil F against spring S when excess of current in coil F unduly energizes it or the'throwing away of armature L from coil E by spring Swhen coil E is denergized. Coil E may be decnergized .by failure of current from source of supply or by pressing a push-button H, and thus closing a shunt around it. The overload-coil F is arranged near the plates A A in series with the plate A and the armature B and serves also as a blow-out coil to extinguish the are when the contact O separates from the plate A. The shunt-wound field-coil G of the motor is permanently connected across the main leads 2 3 in series with the underload-coil E. In shunt around the coil E is a circuit 4, containing one or more normally open push-buttons H, connected in multiple. It is evident that the pushing of one of these buttons will v cause the circuit-breaker to operate.

In order to convert the motor into-a braking-generator when the circuit-breaker operates, an auxiliary contact-plate A is arranged adjacent to but insulated from the plate A.

plate A, thus closing a local circuit through the blow-out coil F, armature B, and resistance I.

Line-current having been cut off and the local circuit closed in the manner described, the motor, if it continues to rotate from its own momentum and that of the machine to which it is connected, Will operate as a generator, sending a current through the resistance I, and offering such a load in opposition to the momentum of the machine as-to stop it very quickly. In practice a large printing-press can be brought from full speed to a dead stop while its bed is moving six inches.

Though I prefer to employ an automatic circuit-breaker of the type described, it is not absolutely essential, as other devices of this character provided with arc extinguishing devices to safely interrupt the current and adapted to be tripped in a manner substantially similar to that described may be employed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In an electric-motor circuit, a circuitbreaking device having two stationary contacts, a movable contact which completes the Supply-circuit through the two stationary contacts, and an auxiliary contact which becomes electrically connected to one of the stationary contacts by the movable contact whenever said movable contact is actuated to open the supply-circuit, thereby closing a local circuit through the motor.

2. In an electric-motor circuit, an automatic circuit-breaker having two stationary contacts, a movable contact which completes the supply-circuit through the two stationary contacts, and an auxiliary contact which becomes electrically connected to one of the stationary contacts by the movable contact whenever the movable contact is actuated to open the supply-circuit, thereby closing a local circuit through the motor.

3. The combination with an electric motor, of acircuit-breakerforinstantaneously opening the supply-circuit of said motor, means for automatically short-circuiting the motorarmature upon itself upon operation of the circuit-breaker, a tripping device for said breaker having its coil in series with the motor-field, and means for operating said tripping device from a distance.

4. The combination with an electric motor, of an automatic circuitbreaker provided with contacts arranged to close a local circuit through the motor so as to convert it into a braking-generator immediately upon operation of the circuit-breaker, a tripping-coil in series with the motor-field, means operated thereby for opening the circuit-breaker, and means for short-circuiting said coil from a distance.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of May, 1901.

GEORGE O. BAKER.

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OHAs. T. HUGHES, I'IAYGORTH LEONARD. 

